Sentence examples for modest but powerful from inspiring English sources
In its modest but powerful vision, it's an exemplary precursor to John Ford's final Western, "Cheyenne Autumn," from a decade later.
Cooper's delivery was modest but powerful.
Sarah Hayden Reichard has written a modest and unassuming but powerful book, THE CONSCIENTIOUS GARDENER: Cultivating a Garden Ethic (University of California Press, $27.50), arguing that gardeners should be on the front line when it comes to recognizing the interconnection of mankind and nature.
Despite its worldwide success the show has retained the feel of a handmade diversion, modest in its means but powerful in its ability to induce waves of giggles and sighs of pleasure.
"He has this sensitive but powerful thing".
It is a peaceful but powerful revolution.
dCAP is simple but powerful.
It is a modest, but symbolic, sign that almost two weeks after a powerful earthquake and tsunami devastated its north-east coast, Japan is rebuilding.
So according to Kimberly Elliott of the Centre for Global Development, a think-tank in Washington, DC, the developing countries had won a modest but not meaningless concession from the world's most powerful country.
The lodge may have been modest, but it had what we needed: a big bed, a powerful heater, a gear shed and fresh-baked croissants every morning.
